Ranma and Kasumi continue to adjust to life aboard a school-ship, and yet again are prompted to consider the Sensha-Do club, in
With Grace and Elegance.
And there are Ninja. Of course.
A Thing of Vikings
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089.../103227435
Quote:While it took most of a generation for formal political parties to develop in the Grand Thing, with the first such, Rättfärdig U Tzedak, dating its founding to AD 1076, the roots of the Grand Thing’s political structure predate the assembly itself. The event which most scholars point to, the Citizenship Conclave of AD 1043, saw the early development of voting blocs and informal alliances set for the achievement of one political goal or other. However, there were no formal political factions as of yet. Instead regional, social class, linguistic, religious, and ethnic factions dominated most of the proceedings, with most of the attendees working and voting for their own interests. While they produced a legal code that achieved the stated goals of King Stoick in offering a structure for the nation at large, it was still a work of compromise that directly contradicted the King’s own stated desires on more than one point, a factor that oddly helped legitimize it in the eyes of many in the kingdom.
—Origins Of The Grand Thing, Edinburgh Press, 1631
EDIT: A reminder that ATOV will be on hiatus for the next 3 weeks.
The Life Of Dragons, Ánslo Academic Publications, 1563 Wrote:It was during the Bronze and Iron Ages, however, that the draconic species truly began to lose ground to the burgeoning human population. Advances in weaponry and armor meant that human hunting parties could truly go toe-to-claw with dragons, and their increasing population numbers and density put them into direct and increasing resource conflict with many dragon nests as time went on. While it is believed that the Mycenaean Greeks were the first culture to engage in region-wide organized hunts of dragons, pooling resources across multiple Mycenaean kingdoms in order to do so, later European and West Asian societies continued this practice. And their reasons for doing so are stated clearly in primary sources and folklore from the period, including defense against raiding of human food stocks, the acquisition of rare resources in the form of draconic body parts, and, arguably most importantly for some, the prestige associated with dragon-slaying, which would have those successful hunters preserved in story and song.
The
author of
Una Nueva Espada Para Una Nueva Era is back, with something to ease the pain of the
A Thing of Vikings hiatus. Once again, ATOV the author provided the epigraph to this authorized side-story.
Mr_Crocodile Wrote:"Three hundred years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon!" "First to ride one, though."
History runs deep with blood and death, and there are reasons why it took someone like Hiccup to make peace.
As you might guess from that epigraph, this has a happier ending for its walker characters than for its flyers, but
Sic Transit Mundus (thus passes the world).
https://archiveofourown.org/works/41331399